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Albania state institutions 1899–1984 Purged and imprisoned; died

Albanian communist activist and diplomat

At the Constituent Assembly's session on 11 January 1946, he was elected chair of a 20-member mandate verification commission, closing its first session; at midday of that day, at the second session, the Assembly proclaimed Albania a People's Republic.

Albanian communist activist and diplomat. Born in Faiyum, Egypt, into a national-movement family, he studied in Beirut and at Harvard, served as Albanian consul in New York in 1923-24, and taught at the Comintern school in Moscow. Sent to Albania in 1938, he took part in the party's founding in 1941, served as secretary of the General National Liberation Council in 1943 and of the Constituent Assembly in 1945, was ambassador to Moscow in 1946-47, Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to Sofia in 1954-55, and chaired the Party Control and Revision Commission until 1960, when he was purged: eight years of internment, ten years in Burrel prison, released in 1980, dead in 1984.

Albania state institutions 1904–1960 ↓ Died in custody

From antifascist resistance to postwar opposition

In 1945 he challenged electoral rules that left opposition groups too little time to organize.

Albanian educator and politician from Shkodra. After literary studies in Paris and antifascist resistance, he served as education minister from October 1944 to January 1945. Opposition to postwar electoral restrictions preceded his arrest in 1946 and death in custody. The dates follow AIDSSH; conflicting accounts are discussed below.